'Slam', to be shot in Western Sydney later this year, follows the disappearance of a young Muslim woman in a climate of mistrust and xenophobia.
When a young Australian girl of Palestinian origin disappears the night after her slam poetry performance, the media runs stories which suggest she is a home-grown radical who went to Syria to join Islamic terrorists.
The third seasons of ABC series' 'Ginger and the Vegesaurs' and 'The Newsreader', as well as a new film from Sophie Hyde about Oscar Wilde's wife, are among the projects to share in $10 million of production funding from Screen Australia.
A trio of music icons and a legendary racehorse are among the subjects of eight projects to receive $2.3 million in documentary production funding from Screen Australia.
Screen Australia has unveiled 13 titles that will share in $3.7 million of production funding, with six documentaries to be supported through the Producer Program and seven projects via the Commissioned Program.
High-profile talent on both sides of camera punctuate the four feature films, three television dramas, and one virtual reality project that will share in more than $6.5 million of production funding from Screen Australia.
A documentary born out of "a collaboration made in heaven" between Sweetshop & Green and Monash University will make its debut at the Melbourne International Film Festival this week.
Guy Pearce will play a soon-to-be-paroled inmate who takes a young prisoner under his wing in the feature debut of writer/director Charles Williams.